He's only just finished touring the country, but Ed Sheeran is already keen to come back.
The UK pop star has confirmed he'll return at the end of the year to perform his biggest New Zealand show yet, at Auckland's Mt Smart Stadium on December 12.
"Moving to stadium shows is pretty nuts for me." Sheeran told The New Zealand Herald while enjoying a break in the North Island after finishing his recent tour.
"It's definitely going to be a better set. It will be more polished. I've still got to plan it - but it's going to be good."
Filling a stadium will be another step up for the redheaded singer, known for his hits Lego House, Sing, Thinking Out Loud and his most recent single Bloodstream.
The British one-man-band uses just an acoustic guitar and layered vocal harmonies - fed through a loop pedal - to create his music live from scratch.
He's just done that over four well-received dates in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch but this time he will do it all solo on a huge stadium stage.
His sold-out March and April tour saw Sheeran perform in front of nearly 190,000 fans across New Zealand and Australia.
Sheeran promises he'll be getting plenty of practice in before his December show and what will be his fifth visit down under, in four years.
"I'm doing a bunch of stadium shows in other countries beforehand - I should be used to it by then, hopefully."
And Sheeran is resisting the urge to add anyone else to his live show.
"I haven't done anything different for the past 10 years. So it's the same thing that I've always been doing and I think if I changed it up now it wouldn't be any good. So that's what I'm doing... I'm not fixing anything that isn't broken."
Sheeran will play shows in Brisbane, Perth and Melbourne before flying over to New Zealand for his December 12 gig at Mt Smart Stadium.
Auckland show tickets can be obtained through the Vodafone or Frontier Touring pre-sales or from May 5 through Ticketmaster.
The Vodafone pre-sale begins on Friday at noon, followed by the Frontier Touring pre-sale on Tuesday at 2pm.
ED SHEERAN SHOW DATES
Saturday November 28 - Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane, Australia
Wednesday December 2 - nib Stadium, Perth, Australia
Saturday December 5 - AAMI Park, Melbourne, Australia.
Wednesday December 9 - Allianz Stadium, Sydney, Australia
Saturday December 12 - Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand
Source: The New Zealand Herald
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